Jolanda Neff
{{Short description|Swiss cyclist (born 1993)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2020}}
{{Infobox cyclist
| name = Jolanda Neff
| image = Jolanda Neff - 2018 UEC European Mountain Bike Championships (Women's cross-country - podium).jpg
| caption = Neff in 2018
| fullname = Jolanda Neff
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1993|1|5|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Altstätten, Switzerland
| death_date =
| death_place =
| height = 1.68 m
| weight = 53 kg
| currentteam = Cannondale Factory Racing
| disciplines = {{ubl|class=nowrap|Mountain biking (Cross-country)|Cyclo-cross|Road}}
| role = Rider
| ridertype = All-rounder
| majorwins = ;Cyclo-cross
:National Championships (2019)
;Mountain bike
:World XC Championships (2017)
:World Marathon Championships (2016)
:European XC Championships
(2015, 2016, 2018, 2019)
:National XC Championships
(2014, 2016–2018, 2020, 2021)
:XC World Cup (2014, 2015, 2018)
::{{nowrap|8 individual wins (2014, 2015, 2018, 2022)}}
;Road
:National Road Race Championships (2015, 2018)
| proyears1 = 2012
| proteam1 = Wheeler–IXS Team (off-road)
| proyears2 = 2013–2014
| proteam2 = Giant Pro XC Team (off-road)
| proyears3 = 2013
| proteam3 = {{UCI team code|RLG|2013}} (road)
| proyears4 = 2014–2016
| proteam4 = Stöckli-Pro-Team (off-road)
| proyears5 = 2015–2016
| proteam5 = {{UCI team code|SEF|2015}} (road)
| proyears6 = 2017–2018
| proteam6 = Kross Racing Team (off-road)
| proyears7 = 2018–2024
| proteam7 = Trek Factory Racing (off-road)
| proyears8 = 2019–2024
| proteam8 = {{UCI team code|TFS2|2019}} (road){{cite news|url=https://racing.trekbikes.com/stories/trek-segafredo-women/trek-segafredo-announce-official-2019-rosters-for-men-and-women|title=Trek-Segafredo announce official 2019 rosters for men and women|work=Trek Bicycle Corporation|publisher=Intrepid Corporation|date=27 December 2018|access-date=8 March 2019}}
| proyears9 = 2025-
| proteam9 = Cannondale Factory Racing
| show-medals = no
| medaltemplates = {{MedalSport | Women's mountain bike racing}}
{{MedalCountry|{{SUI}} }}
{{MedalOlympic}}
{{MedalGold| 2020 Tokyo | Cross-country}}
{{MedalCompetition|World Championships}}
{{MedalGold |2016 Laissac|Marathon}}
{{MedalGold|2017 Cairns|Cross-country}}
{{MedalGold |2017 Cairns|Team relay}}
{{MedalGold|2018 Lenzerheide|Team relay}}
{{MedalGold|2019 Mont-Sainte-Anne|Team relay}}
{{MedalSilver|2014 Hafjell|Team relay}}
{{MedalSilver|2019 Mont-Sainte-Anne|Cross-country}}
{{MedalSilver|2022 Les Gets|Cross-country}}
{{MedalCompetition|World Cup}}
{{MedalGold| 2014 Overall|Cross-country}}
{{MedalGold| 2015 Overall|Cross-country}}
{{MedalGold| 2018 Overall|Cross-country}}
{{MedalSilver| 2019 Overall|Cross-country}}
{{MedalCompetition|European Championships}}
{{MedalGold|2015 Chies d'Alpago|Cross-country}}
{{MedalGold|2016 Huskvarna|Cross-country}}
{{MedalGold|2016 Huskvarna|Team relay}}
{{MedalGold|2018 Glasgow|Cross-country}}
{{MedalGold|2019 Brno|Cross-country}}
{{MedalSilver|2013 Berna|Team relay}}
{{MedalSilver|2014 St. Wendel|Cross-country}}
{{MedalSilver|2015 Singen|Marathon}}
{{MedalCompetition|European Games}}
{{MedalGold|2015 Baku|Cross-country}}
{{MedalCompetition| World Under-23 Championships}}
{{MedalGold|2012 Saalfelden|Cross-country}}
{{MedalGold|2013 Pietermaritzburg|Cross-country}}
{{MedalGold|2014 Hafjell|Cross-country}}
{{MedalCompetition|European Under-23 Championships}}
{{MedalGold|2012 Moscow |Cross-country}}
{{MedalSilver|2014 St. Wendel |Cross-country}}
{{MedalCompetition|European Junior Championships}}
{{MedalGold|2011 Dohňany |Cross-country}}
}}
Jolanda Neff (born 5 January 1993) is a Swiss cyclist, who primarily rides in the cross-country cycling and cyclo-cross disciplines, for the Cannondale Factory Racing team.{{cite web|url=https://www.uci.org/rider-details/70941|title=Jolanda Neff|work=UCI.org|publisher=Union Cycliste Internationale|accessdate=9 January 2023}} She won the gold medal in the women's cross-country event at the 2020 Summer Olympics.
Career
She was the overall winner of the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup in 2014 and 2015.{{cite web|title=Neff wins cross country World Cup in Meribel: Dahle Flesjaa and Ferrand Prevot take second and third|date=24 August 2014|publisher=Cycling News|url=http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/mtb-world-cup-cross-country-7-eliminator-7-and-downhill-7-meribel-2014/elite-women-cross-country/results/ |access-date=5 September 2018}}{{cite web|title=Langvad solos to Val di Sole victory: Neff defends World Cup title with second place|date=23 August 2015 |url=http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/uci-mtb-world-cup-xco-6-val-di-sole-2015/elite-women/results/ |access-date=11 July 2016}} She was triple Under-23 Mountain Bike World Champion (2012, 2013 and 2014). At the 2017 UCI World Championships in Cairns she became the elite world champion.
In June 2015, she won the first gold medal for Switzerland in the women's cross country event at the European Games in Baku.{{cite web |url=http://www.baku2015.com/cycling-mountain-bike/index.html |title=Cycling Mountain Bike |access-date=14 June 2015 |work=Baku 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180910133146/http://www.baku2015.com/cycling-mountain-bike/index.html |archive-date=10 September 2018 |url-status=usurped }} Later the same month, she went on to win the Swiss National Road Race Championships.
Neff won the UCI Mountain Bike Marathon World Championships in 2016 and Mountain Bike XCO World Championship in 2017. She also won the European Mountain Bike Championships in August 2018 at Cathkin Braes, just outside of Glasgow.{{cite web |url=https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/sport/mountain-biking---neff-earns-runaway-european-cross-country-win-10596882 |title=Mountain Biking – Neff earns runaway European cross-country win |work=Channel News Asia |access-date=7 August 2018 |archive-date=8 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180808120100/https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/sport/mountain-biking---neff-earns-runaway-european-cross-country-win-10596882 |url-status=dead }}
In October 2018, Neff announced that she would join the new {{UCI team code|TFS2}} team for 2019 in road racing, and Trek Factory Racing in mountain biking and cyclo-cross.{{cite web |url=http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/neff-signs-with-trek-factory-racing/ |title=Neff signs with Trek Factory Racing|date=24 October 2018 |website=cyclingnews.com |access-date=2 January 2019}}
In July 2021, Neff won the gold medal in the women's cross-country event at the COVID-19 pandemic-delayed 2020 Summer Olympics.{{Cite web|url=https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/first--swiss-podium--at-olympics-since-1936/46819848|title=First 'Swiss podium' at Olympics since 1936}} Her victory, along with her teammates Linda Indergand and Sina Frei winning the bronze and silver medals, marked the first all-Swiss Olympic podium since 1936 and the first time a nation has won all three medals in a cycling event since 1904.
Personal life
Since 2018, she has been in a relationship with American downhill mountain biking racer Luca Shaw.{{cite news|first=Mathias|last=Germann|url=https://www.blick.ch/sport/rad/us-downhiller-luca-shaw-24-ist-neffs-freund-er-hat-jolanda-so-stark-gemacht-id16707200.html|title=Er hat Jolanda so stark gemacht|language=German|trans-title=He made Jolanda so strong|work=Blick|publisher=Ringier|date=27 July 2021|accessdate=9 January 2023}}
Career achievements
=Major results=
==Cyclo-cross==
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;2017–2018
::1st Bern
::1st Meilen
::2nd Eschenbach
;2018–2019
: 1st {{cjersey|swiss}} National Championships
::1st Baal
::1st Meilen
;2019–2020
: 1st Waterloo
::2nd Waterloo
;2021–2022
: 1st Waterloo
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==Road==
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;2015
: 1st {{cjersey|swiss}} Road race, National Championships
: 4th Giro dell'Emilia
: 6th Trofeo Alfredo Binda
: 9th Road race, UCI World Championships
;2016
: 1st {{cjersey|yellow}} Overall Tour de Pologne
::1st {{cjersey|white}} Points classification
::1st {{cjersey|azul}} Active rider classification
::1st Stages 1 & 3
: 3rd Trofeo Alfredo Binda
: 8th Road race, Olympic Games
: 10th La Flèche Wallonne
;2018
: 1st {{cjersey|swiss}} Road race, National Championships
;2020
: 4th Time trial, National Championships
;2021
: 4th Overall Tour de Suisse
;2022
: 5th Overall Tour de Suisse
;2023
: 1st {{cjersey|pink}} Overall Trofeo Ponente in Rosa
::1st {{cjersey|purple}} Points classification
::1st Stage 3 & 4
;2024
: 5th Overall Trofeo Ponente in Rosa
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==Mountain bike==
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;2012
::1st {{cjersey|rainbow}} Under-23 cross-country
::2nd 15px Eliminator
: 1st 20px Cross-country, UEC European Under-23 Championships
::1st {{cjersey|swiss}} Eliminator
::1st {{cjersey|swiss}} Under-23 cross-country
::2nd Basel–Muttenz
: 3rd Overall UCI Under-23 XCO World Cup
;2013
::1st {{cjersey|rainbow}} Under-23 cross-country
::2nd 15px Eliminator
: 1st {{cjersey|swiss}} Eliminator, National Championships
: 2nd 15px Team relay, UEC European Championships
::3rd Gränichen
;2014
::1st {{cjersey|rainbow}} Under-23 cross-country
::2nd 15px Team relay
::1st {{cjersey|swiss}} Cross-country
::2nd Eliminator
: 1st {{cjersey|white}} Overall UCI XCO World Cup
::1st Pietermaritzburg
::1st Mont-Sainte-Anne
::1st Méribel
::3rd Albstadt
::1st Buchs
::1st Lugano–Tesserete
::1st Gränichen
::1st Lenzerheide
::1st Basel–Muttenz
: 2nd 15px Cross-country, UEC European Under-23 Championships
;2015
::1st 20px Cross-country
::2nd 15px Marathon
: 1st 15px Cross-country, European Games
: 1st {{cjersey|white}} Overall UCI XCO World Cup
::1st Nové Město
::1st Albstadt
::1st Mont-Sainte-Anne
::2nd Windham
::2nd Trentino
::1st Schaan
::1st Lugano–Tesserete
::1st Solothurn
::1st Gränichen
;2016
: 1st {{cjersey|rainbow}} Marathon, UCI World Championships
::1st {{cjersey|europe}} Cross-country
::1st {{cjersey|europe}} Team relay
: 1st {{cjersey|swiss}} Cross-country, National Championships
: 1st 20px Overall Swiss Epic (with Alessandra Keller)
;2017
::1st {{cjersey|rainbow}} Cross-country
::1st {{cjersey|rainbow}} Team relay
: 1st {{cjersey|swiss}} Cross-country, National Championships
;2018
: 1st {{cjersey|rainbow}} Team relay, UCI World Championships
: 1st {{cjersey|europe}} Cross-country, UEC European Championships
: 1st {{cjersey|swiss}} Cross-country, National Championships
: 1st {{cjersey|white}} Overall UCI XCO World Cup
::1st Albstadt
::3rd Val di Sole
: Swiss Bike Cup
::1st Gränichen
::1st Andermatt
::2nd Schaan
: 1st Internacionales Chelva
::2nd Albstadt
::2nd Mont-Sainte-Anne
::3rd Nové Město
::3rd La Bresse
;2019
: 1st {{cjersey|europe}} Cross-country, UEC European Championships
::1st Vallnord
::1st Val di Sole
::2nd Albstadt
::2nd Lenzerheide
::3rd Nové Město
: 1st Tokyo 2020 Test Event
: 2nd 15px Cross-country, UCI World Championships
: 2nd Overall UCI XCO World Cup
::2nd Albstadt
::2nd Vallnord
::2nd Les Gets
::2nd Val di Sole
;2020
: 1st {{cjersey|swiss}} Cross-country, National Championships
: Swiss Bike Cup
::2nd Leukerbad
: French Cup
::2nd Alpe d'Huez
;2021
: 1st 15px Cross-country, Olympic Games
: 1st {{cjersey|swiss}} Cross-country, National Championships
: Internazionali d'Italia Series
::1st Andora
: 2nd Copa Catalana Internacional BTT
::3rd Leogang
::3rd Lenzerheide
;2022
: 1st {{cjersey|swiss}} Short track, National Championships
::1st Mont-Sainte-Anne
::3rd Val di Sole
::2nd 15px Cross-country
: 3rd Overall UCI XCC World Cup
::1st Nové Město
::1st Mont-Sainte-Anne
::3rd Lenzerheide
;2023
: 2nd Cross-country, National Championships
: 2nd Haiming
: Swiss Bike Cup
::2nd Basel
::3rd Gränichen
: 4th Cross-country, UEC European Championships
::4th Mont-Sainte-Anne
::5th Snowshoe
;2024
: Swiss Bike Cup
::2nd Gränichen
::2nd Rivera
: Shimano Super Cup
::2nd Banyoles
::5th Mairiporã
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=Awards and honours=
Between 2014 and 2019, Neff was named as the Swiss female cyclist of the year at the {{ill|Swiss Cycling Awards|de}}.{{cite news|url=https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/jolanda-neff-and-nino-schurter-scoop-swiss-awards/|title=Jolanda Neff and Nino Schurter scoop Swiss awards|work=Cyclingnews.com|publisher=Immediate Media Company|date=9 November 2018|accessdate=9 January 2023|quote=For both riders, it was their fifth consecutive win at the Swiss Cycling awards [...]}}{{cite news|first=Balz|last=Weber|url=https://www.ride.ch/de/news/swiss-cycling-awards-neff-holt-sechste-auszeichnung-in-serie|title=Swiss Cycling Awards: Neff holt sechste Auszeichnung in Serie|language=German|trans-title=Swiss Cycling Awards: Neff wins sixth award in a row|work=Ride|publisher=Swiss Sports Publishing GmbH|date=4 November 2019|accessdate=9 January 2023}} She won the award for a seventh time in 2021, as all five Swiss female cyclists to ride, and win medals, at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Neff, Sina Frei, Linda Indergand, Marlen Reusser and Nikita Ducarroz – were recognised as joint winners.{{cite news|first=Balz|last=Weber|url=https://www.ride.ch/de/news/swiss-cycling-erteilt-fuenf-frauen-eine-besondere-ehre|title=Swiss Cycling erteilt fünf Frauen eine besondere Ehre|language=German|trans-title=Swiss Cycling gives a special honor to five women|work=Ride|publisher=Swiss Sports Publishing GmbH|date=9 December 2021|accessdate=9 January 2023}}
Following her Olympic gold medal, a street in Thal was renamed as "Jolanda Neff Weg" in her honour in August 2021.{{cite news|first=Rudolf|last=Hirtl|url=https://www.tagblatt.ch/ostschweiz/stgallen/jolanda-neff-weg-ruhrt-zu-tranen-ld.2175204|title=Thal würdigt seine Olympiasiegerin: Jolanda Neff Weg mit Sekt und ein paar Tränen eingeweiht|language=German|trans-title=Thal honors its Olympic champion: Jolanda Neff inaugurated with champagne and a few tears|work=St. Galler Tagblatt|publisher=St. Galler Tagblatt AG|date=18 August 2021|accessdate=9 January 2023}}
References
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External links
- {{Official website}}
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{{Footer Olympic Champions Mountain Bike Women}}
{{UCI Mountain Bike World Champions – Women's cross-country}}
{{UCI Mountain Bike Marathon World Champions – Women's elite}}
{{Swiss National Road Race Championships (women)}}
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